>> How did you calculate 100% = 1em ?
>> Mostly everyone used, including myself pixels for box sizing, I hope you
were referring to creating a DIV as in box sizing ? What do you mean by
"percentages are based on browser size" ?
>>
>>> (although, it would be kind of fun if 100% resulted in letters
>>> hundreds of pixels high...)
>>>
>>> ---Tim
>>
> I think percentages are based on their parents size and not the browser.
> Correct me if I am wrong.
You are correct (except for the exceptions mentioned later by other people),
and of course for fonts.
The original question was about fonts. None of the box-model percent sizing
tangents matter. My comment was based on this from the OP:
> percentages from what I know are relative to the browser size
And that's only remotely true in the context of boxes.
For example, if I have a rule that says
body {
font-size: 50%;
width: 50%;
}
My font size is 8px (assuming browser defaults). But my body width is NOT
8px. It is in fact half of my browser width. And so my point, which is
still valid, is that font percent and other percent are not the same thing.
---Tim
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